AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes solution for running containers available in AWS cloud platform since June 2018 . EKS can be managed using Jenkins X software . Other AWS services for running containers are ECS or Fargate.

By default EKS provides 3 master nodes and 3 etcd nodes, but are invisible to you and Amazon is responsible of AutoScaling them when needed.

helm repo add eks https://aws.github.io/eks-charts

Creation your first EKS Cluster

0) Prerequisites: kubectl and aws-iam-authenticator (a tool to authenticate to Kubernetes using AWS IAM credentials)

On macOS: brew install aws-iam-authenticator and brew install kubernetes-cli

1) Create a new service role

2) Create a new VPC for you new EKS Cluster using this CloudFormation template from AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

3) Create EKS Cluster from AWS Webconsole, user used for creating EKS Cluster will be the initial administrator.

4) Create Worker Nodes using AWS Cloudformation template https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-eks-ami/blob/master/amazon-eks-nodegroup.yaml

5) Install Kubernetes dashboard

Costs

EKS is not included in AWS Free Tier, usually running an EKS cluster is more expensive than ECS for small deployments. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) offers free trial Kubernetes service.

Activities

• Read GitLab integration with EKS: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/09/gitlab-eks-integration-how-to/

Related

• AWS EKS Anywhere
• Amazon EKS cluster role
• AWS Bottlerocket

See also

• EKS, eksctl, EKS add-ons, Amazon EKS cluster role, Terraform EKS, Kubernetes Autoscaler, Karpenter, Terraform module: EKS, Terraform resource: aws eks node group, Terraform data source: aws_eks_cluster, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Amazon EKS Anywhere, Kustomize, aws-iam-authenticator, ACK, tEKS, Amazon EKS authorization, Amazon EKS authentication, Nodegroup, EKS storage, aws-ebs-csi-driver, aws-efs-csi-driver, aws-load-balancer-controller, amazon-vpc-cni-k8s, EKS security, EKS Best Practices Guides, hardeneks, EKS versions, fargate-scheduler, eks-connector, Resilience in Amazon EKS, EKS control plane logging, Security groups for Pods in EKS
• AWS EKS:AWS::EKS, aws eks [ create-cluster | list-clusters | describe-cluster | update-kubeconfig | list-updates | list-addons | update-cluster-version | update-nodegroup-version | get-token | create-addon ]
• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)
• AWS EKS getting starting guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html
• Kubernetes cloud services: EKS, GKE (Anthos), AKS, Docker Kubernetes Service (DKS), TKE

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/DevOps/Kubernetes/EKS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/continuous-delivery-eks-jenkins-x/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/